1/22/2021

Corona and my my Social Life: a sad, sad story

Before Corona..

All those fun conversations I had…

And then Corona came…

a <- 'I'
b <- "am"
c <- "bored"

# a+b+c = ?

The difference:’(

Predicting social activity

To predict the number of social interction in the future, I fitted made up this linear combination of predictors: \[ \begin{aligned} soc\_ac\_p\_month =& 15 -10 * lockdown + 3 * spring + \\ &7 * summer+ 2* fall + -5 * cerfew + \\ & 2 * fight\_with\_girlfriend \end{aligned} \]

I’m glad it I don’t suffer from serious mental health issues as other students do accordingly to Son et al. (2020)

References

Son, C, S Hedge, A Smith, X Wang, and F Sasangohar. 2020. “Effects of COVID on College Students’ Mental Health in the United States.” Journal of Medical Internet Research 22 (9): 261–63. https://doi.org/10.2196/21279.